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A Texas company has brought back long-extinct dire wolf

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"Preserving, expanding, and testing genetic diversity should be done well before important endangered animal species like the red wolf are lost," said Harvard geneticist and co-founder of Colossal, D...
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Colossal managed to resurrect it by editing snippets of the gray wolf’s gene sequence that were most divergent between the two related species.
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